Plantain Pizza

Last week, my brother sent me a message on whatsapp saying he had a dream about a dish I should try. See how awesome my family is? His original idea was plantain pizza with gizzard as toppings as a different way to serve dodo gizzard. Unfortunately, plantain will not hold well on its own so I decided to incorporate it into a pizza dough and the result was awesome. What I love about this recIpe is you can completely pick whatever toppings you want and make it very versatile. You almost don’t even taste the plantain in it. It is also a great way to use over-ripe plantain lying around in the house. Without further ado, enjoy the afrolems plantain pizza.

Ingredients

2 cups of Bread flour

3/4 cup of water

1.5 teaspoons of yeast

1 tablespoon of oil

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon of sugar

1 over-ripe plantain (Mashed)

For the toppings (You can pick your toppings)

1 cup of chopped Beef

A handful of chopped bell peppers

A handful of chopped onions

For the Sauce

1 Bell pepper (Blended)

1 tomato(Blended)

Seasoning cube

1 teaspoon oil

Method

Dissolve the yeast in warm water and leave to stand for about 5 minutes.

Mix the oil, flour, salt, sugar and mashed plantain and pour in the dissolved yeast.

Knead the dough till its elastic which may take aBout 15-20 minutes By hand or 10 minutes in a mixer.

Coat a Bowl lightly with oil and place the dough in it. Cover with a plastic wrap and leave to rise between 1.5 – 2 hours.

While the dough is rising, heat up the oil for the sauce, fry the Blended tomato and pepper, season and stir fry the Beef in the tomato sauce. Set aside.

When the dough rises, divide into two. Sprinkle some flour on a flat surface and with a rolling pin, flatten out the dough but not excessively. Cut the dough into your desired shape, rub some oil on it and spread your sauce and toppings on it and set aside.

Heat up your oven to 350 F and place your pizza dough on a lightly oiled foil pan and Bake for 12-15 mins. Serve warm